Quotes about Mediocrity

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

If mediocrity becomes the norm, the quantity of outstanding producers will decline, as will general prosperity.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre.